When you’re in an executive leadership position, you need to know the people you’re leading – not just superficially, but substantially. How else are you going to know the best way of utilizing their strengths and motivating them to engage for optimal performance?

Unfortunately, when you’re in a leadership role, it’s common to feel disconnected from the people you’re leading, and that can make effective leadership difficult.

An executive leadership coach can serve as an impartial third-party observer. Someone adept at seeing multiple points of view and helping you incorporate these varied perspectives into the achievement of a common goal.

Accountability – Wanting to do something isn’t always enough to get it done. What helps is having an accountability partner. Your executive coach can be that person for you – someone who not only knows what you want to do, but also follows up to be sure you have followed through.

Acknowledgement – Your successes will not go unnoticed. In fact, your executive coach will be looking for them and pointing them out. Not just to give you props, but to identify what works so that your successes can be repeated.

Executive coaching is a collaborative process for developing your business leadership skills.

First, you choose your executive coach.

Certification and experience are important, but equally so is her vision and coaching style. You can learn a lot from a website, but you’ll learn more in the introductory meeting – be it in-person or via Skype – during which you’ll get a good sense of her and what working together will feel like.

Second, your executive coach guides the process through a series of coaching sessions.

Your strengths, challenges, and goals will inform the work, but it’s your coach who will guide you through the process every step of the way. This is not to be confused with telling you what to do. She’ll give you advice if you ask for it, but your executive coach is there to drive the work forward, not determine its direction. The direction is up to you.

Finally, you assess your progress together, making changes as necessary and celebrating successes as you go.

As a leader, you expect a lot of yourself. But central to your success is your ability to ask for help when you need it.

Executive leadership coaching will help you:

Identify and strengthen core talents you may not even know you have

Discover and change unhelpful behavior patterns

Better motivate and engage the people you lead

Facilitate more productive collaborations

Clarify your career goals and map out a path for achievement

You already have executive leadership qualities and proven success. But when you’re ready to move to the next level – in your current leadership role or a new one you’d like to take on – it helps when you have an executive coach to lead you.

As with any kind of service, there is a range of prices for executive coaches, from $___ to $___ per session. Where any one coach falls within this range will depend on their certification, years of experience, location, and how they structure their packages. Here’s what I charge. [link to Packages]

Right here, of course. If you’re in the New York, New Jersey area, then our office is very close. We’re located in Midtown Manhattan across the street from Bryant Park and only a few blocks away from Grand Central Station.

If you’re a little farther away, no problem. Thanks to Skype, you can have face-to-face sessions with our career coach from anywhere. Let’s Get Started.